VESPOIDEA
(wasps)

VESPOIDEA (wasps) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

VESPOIDEA (wasps) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Subtaxon Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
interactions		 No of
references
FORMICIDAE
ants
Family 41 subtaxa 186 trophisms 52 references
MUTILLIDAE
velvet ants
Family 3 subtaxa 3 trophisms 5 references
POMPILIDAE
spider-hunting wasps
Family 18 subtaxa 27 trophisms 9 references
SAPYGIDAE
a family of solitary wasps
Family 2 subtaxa 3 trophisms 5 references
TIPHIIDAE
a family of solitary wasps
Family 3 subtaxa 3 trophisms 5 references
VESPIDAE
potter, mason and social wasps
Family 29 subtaxa 74 trophisms 46 references
Taxonomic hierarchy:
SuperfamilyVESPOIDEA (wasps)
InfraorderAculeata (aculeates: bees, wasps and ants)
SuborderAPOCRITA (bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)
OrderHYMENOPTERA (ants, bees and wasps, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for VESPOIDEA (wasps)

Identification Works

Handling & MagnificationAuthorYearTitleSource
Archer, M.E. 2014 Vespoid Wasps (Tiphiidea, Mutillidae, Sapygidae, Scoliidae and Vespidae) Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol 6 Pt 6, 82pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Richards, O.W. 1980 Scolioidea, Vespoidea and Sphecoidea Handbooks for the Identification of Britsh Insects, Vol VI. Part 3(b), 118pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London

VESPOIDEA (wasps) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

General Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
O’Neill, K.M. 2001 Solitary Wasps: Behavior and Natural History Cornell Series in Arthropod Biology, 406pp, Cornell University Press

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to VESPOIDEA (wasps):

BioImagesBioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 504 images of VESPOIDEA (wasps)
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